Selected Letters

by Witter Bynner, James Kraft (Editor)

Selected from over 7,000 letters, most of hem at the Houghton Library at Harvard, this concluding volume of The Works of Witter Bynner distills the eighty-seven years of Bynner's life, 1881-1968. His correspondence describes travels to Mexico, to China, and to Europe; his life in Boston, New Hampshire, New York, and Santa Fe. There are letters to D.H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Christoper Isherwood, Amy Lowell, Henry Miller, Carl Van Vechten and many others. This collection represents the many aspects of a long and varied career spanning the transition from the Gilded Age to Nuclear Age. (from the back cover) Our edition is in very good condition with minor wear to cover. Could be like new.

299 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

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[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chosen from more than seven thousand extant Bynner letters to more than thirteen hundred recipients, the selection represents those Kraft believes ‘best create a narrative of Bynner’s life’.